This is a community to engage in musical theory and practice. What exactly does that mean?
To that end, this is simply a space for people of varying backgrounds and education to share music and their thoughts about music. Musical study via the history of music is also encouraged.
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No elitism tolerated. The value of music is ultimately determined by how socially necessary it is, i.e. how much people like it and interact with it.
By the same token, no anti-intellectualism tolerated. Like anything in the world, music is something worthy of study that everyone can always learn more about.
No Eurocentricism tolerated. Western (specifically German) music theory and practice being considered inherently superior to the music of other cultures is reactionary.
Popular or classical, western or non-western, communist or even anti-communist, feel free to mention any and all kinds of music here.
Lots of Clarion, Midrift and Select All lately. I've been really into chic-punk banks since I went to that Julie show.
Met a local she/they that's really into music production. It's been a minute since i messaged them, but I always get super nervous about that kind of thing because i don't want them getting the wrong "message" when I hit them up looking for genuine friendship instead of being perceived as another grody dude.
I'm glad I have a really chill woman in my life. She's really understanding and even appreciative that in most of my life, I've made more friends with women than I have ever did with men. I'm grateful it doesn't put any strain on our relationship and she fully trusts me. That helps with the anxiety I mentioned earlier. I don't put my heart into anyone else.
It's also a bit of a struggle because I've made a lot of really cool friends; goth chicks or punk-rockers that I had an amazing friendship with that ends when they admit they have feelings for me or they suddenly end it with no reasoning why. (think it's because I've been told I'm "amorous" many times). Shit like that makes me glad I"m not single anymore. Too many beautiful women with crazy colors and some sad, depressing mental afflictions. Same reason I stopped dating alt-dudes; they're worse!
I am a little hesitant to post that part as it sounds a bit...reactionary, but it does come from objective and personal experience; I don't think it applies everywhere!
Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN A****** Pretty good.
Red Army Choir - A Soldier's Song Ive been completely hooked to this one,
Its a little more bright than other Red Army Choir perfermances as (acording to duckduckgo translator) they sing about how wonderful traveling is. But even then it still goes SOO hard.
Soldier's Song is a great one.
the two things you posted are so different from each other haha. it makes me wish there was more proletarian music in a popular style.
what's your favorite track on the slayyter album?
whatβs your favorite track on the slayyter album?
DANCE... i know its really basic, but i LOVE the bass, i love it so much. I think its inspired by Justice which they are on my top 3 contemporary artist. Have you listened to the album? what is yours?
it makes me wish there was more proletarian music in a popular style.
Yessss, i feel exactly the same. Actually, recently i discovered a DAW, which it seems like my dream DAW, its called imbolc and its a terminal based DAW written in Rust. And i plan to really get into it and record english covers of red army choir songs, with a touch of EDM like justice or aloboi.
Do you have any red army choir favorites?
i haven't listened to the album, at least not enough to have a favorite. in fact, this is the first time i'm hearing about slayyyter! i do also like the bass in dance though haha
that sounds really cool!! i've always wanted to get into DAWs but everyone recommends FL and it's such a huge cost. but, at the same time i don't want to build a skill set and then just end up buying FL later and having to learn it all over again. what kinds of DAWs have you used before?
i don't actually have any red army choir favorites either! i'm not really that big into choral music in my spare listening time, to be honest, so it doesn't hit the same as other things do
I think DAW skills are really transferable from software to software. I have tried only open source DAWs like Ardour and LMMS, but i didnt like them.
i donβt actually have any red army choir favorites either! iβm not really that big into choral music in my spare listening time, to be honest, so it doesnβt hit the same as other things do
What music hits you like that?
i guess that's good to hear, then, that makes me less reticent to start doing something. do you have any recommendations for beginner/free DAWs?
What music hits you like that?
hahaha that's so hard for me to answer, honestly. i have a weird relationship to music where i'm very musical but don't purposefully listen to music very often. and, i tend to like a lot of different things for different reasons. but, the most recent song that gave me chills was this
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im currently addicted to Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones.. def gotta listen to their discography
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recently i'm checking some teto kasane's covers, and yaksa (chinese metalcore band), also i'm kinda enthusiast about maidcore
a lot of Pink Floyd these days, idk why but they seem to fit my mood perfectly rn
pretty eclectic stuff rn:
in my amateur opinion, the voice, probably instruments, and tooling for filling out sounds (for lack of better vocab/jargon) are at the very least ai-assisted. mostly hedging my bets that the voice used is AI -- typically in chinese music industry the vocalist is always credited as the industry is full of songwriters not being the vocalist, etc. And I tried reallly really hard to figure out any credit to a vocalist.... got one name ιηε»· but can't seem to match it to a real person. ANYWAY next biggest tell for me is the uncannily smoothness of the music video and that after playing this, immediately all the next recommended queue on youtube are all explicitly labeled ai gen music, many featuring the same woman's face in the music videos of cover arrangements. context clues but not evidence, I know.
anyway I probably could have figured this out more definitively if I actually looked at douyin myself but I literally can't access full functions of douyin so I'm outta luck there
edit: yay an explainer! youtube comment under the video + translation:
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translation via youtube function/google: We Korean-Chinese people call the Rhododendron indicum the "Azalea." This song was arranged using AI, featuring the voice of a singer who is a member of the Yanbian Korean-Chinese community. The original song is a theme song from a Chinese movie and is a tribute to the Chinese Red Army. The Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Yanbian waged fierce battles against Japan for 14 years. The majority of them were the people of the present-day Korean-Chinese ethnic group. Bearing the sorrow of their country due to the Eulsa Treaty of 1905 and the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910, many people came to the present-day Yanbian region to fight for independence. They fought against Japan alongside our people who had already settled there. That is why there is a saying in Yanbian: "Azaleas on every mountain, monuments to martyrs in every village." The names of tens of thousands of martyrs are inscribed on these monuments in our script. In Yanbian, the azalea is said to be the flower that grows as the blood of tens of thousands of martyrs seeps into the earth. To me, it is a flower that tugs at my heartstrings every time I see it.
very cool smattering, and i really appreciate the explainer too. thanks so much for posting!
its new "old muse"
Oooh cool, I didn't pay much attention since Simulation Theory since I didn't like it that much, but I'll check it out then!
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Oh, i have never paid much attention to this thread the past few weeks, but i might just post a couple. I mostly listen to hardstyle and hardcore π
Fraw, Kruelty and DEEZL - WHITE_MONSTER (DEEZL Remix)
The last minute/40 secs or so goes crazy actually.
Big fan of the continuous re-used kickroll in this one
Just a phenomenal track with no "wow factor" moment, but just well executed.
Big fan of the OG Modern Warfare 2 sounds and voicelines.
Westside gun, denzel curry and action bronson
rediscovered THD, theyre pretty peak imo
LΓ΄ Borges - A Via-LΓ‘ctea one of my favourite albums that I've listened to these last few years. You may know Clube da Esquina and he was in it (or if you didn't know go listen to the self-titled album which is am absolute classic)
Broadcast - Illumination Broadcast has a melancholic kinda psych style with samples and synths, they're kinda related to Stereolab in style
T-Square - Life is a Music one of biggest jazz fusion bands in Japan. I've been listening to their first albums from the late 70s
Darkest Hour - Unburied Ruin
Darkest Hour have been on the metalcore scene since 1995 and are imo the most underrated band of the genre. Unburied Ruin is probably their best album.
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Some songs from the People's Republic of Mongolia.
mitski, constantly
MOANING ASMR